The millionaire, a sex trial and his battle for secrecy

Tariq Khuja boasted of owning 350 homes across Oxford. He ran his lettings business from an office on Cowley Road in the city

She said that she could still smell his aftershave. He was very different from the other men who used her 13-year-old body for sex, the young woman told a jury.

“Tariq” treated her nicely. He seemed like an educated person. He gave her presents, drove expensive cars, was smartly dressed and said that he would look after her. She thought that he was in his early 30s.

The witness claimed the man she called Tariq had sex with her on numerous occasions. It was not what she wanted, but as a child she “got into this mindset where [if] a man had given me things . . . it was almost like I owed them sex”. Aged from 25 to 38, nine defendants at the Old Bailey faced…